Tag: legal advice
Mortgage approvals are up and low deposit mortgages are back
Mortgage approvals hit a 13-year high in the last months of 2020, while the return of low deposit mortgages means that first-time buyers will have a better chance of stepping onto the property ladder. Despite economic turmoil, the house market has been buoyant as buyers look to take advantage of the Stamp Duty holiday, set...
It’s not all doom and gloom: property predictions for 2021
The end of 2020 saw house prices at a record high, helped by the chancellor’s Stamp Duty holiday, but what is likely to happen in 2021 as financial disruption continues? The property market slumped during the first lockdown of 2020, with prices down 0.5 per cent halfway through the year. However, following relaxing of restrictions...
Public support for enhancement of green spaces
The pandemic and subsequent restrictions have highlighted to many the importance of green spaces for mental and physical health and wellbeing. Research commissioned by the Council for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) together with the HomeOwners Alliance and carried out by YouGov in the summer of 2020, found that 71 per cent of those...
Price transparency in conveyancing shows solicitors are affordable
When consumers were unaware of how much a solicitor might charge, half assumed that they were an unaffordable option. A new survey has shown that now that prices are easily available to view, only 10 per cent think they are unaffordable. At the end of 2018, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) introduced new Transparency Rules...
